Naval General Service Medal 1915 - 62
Clasp for Persian Gulf 1909-1914. Awarded to Surgeon Rear Admiral Thomas Tendron Jeans M.B., R.N. H.M. 'Swiftsure'
Biography: Born 1871, died 4 January 1938. M.R.C.S. (Eng) 1893, L.R.C.P. (Lond) 1893, M.B. (Univ London) 1893. Clinical Assistant at Manchester Cancer Hospital; joined the Royal Navy 1894; Staff Surgeon 1902; Fleet Surgeon 1910; Surgeon Captain 30 June 1922; retired as Surgeon Rear Admiral 19 January 1926.
Service: Manila during Spanish - American War; South Africa 1899-1900 with naval brigade in Orange Free State (Paardeberg, Bloemfontein) as surgeon to H.M.S. 'Monarch'. During 1914-18 served on the flagship of the East Indian Station at the Dardanelles and Suez Canal, awarded C.M.G. August 1919. S.M.O. Portsmouth Barracks and later on Hospital Ship 'Soudan' 1919-22 in charge of Naval hospital at Cape of Good Hope. 1922-26 in charge of naval hospital at Portsmouth. Editor and part author 'Naval Brigades in the South African War 1899-1900'. Wrote several novels on sea life. In 1927 wrote his autobiography 'The reminiscence of a naval surgeon'
Further biography details available on request.

PROVENANCE:
Collection Late Kenneth F. Russell (1911-1987), Professor of Anatomy and Medical History, University of Melbourne.

Estimate $1,000-2,000